Tell me again how great Canada is? I tend to forget when I read of moves like this. I don't recall USA broadcasters stopping the streaming of Canadian television shows down to their southern neighbor.
the RIAA (like SCO) has greatly abused the legal system to pursue their own selfish and greedy ends.
Don't forget Direct TV in this hall of shame. Boilerplate settlement agreements against anyone they could discover who'd bought a SmartCard Writer, despite that fact that SmartCards are used in many places. Guilty till proven innocent, and IIRC the settlement was around $9,000. They weren't stopped, and certainly the RIAA took a page from that playbook.
Just playing the devil's advocate... It would be perfect to add a router and Mac Mini with a bit torrent client running on it.
Then back at you. Your Mother is left to explain, under oath, why she had the expense of a router for a home with only one computer system. And the ISP might be able to testify to multi-gigabytes of traffic on this "unlimited" DSL line monthly. Dear Auld Mum must be sending awful long e-mails to account for that.
Add up the bill for the Mac, router, extra hard drive space/blank DVD's, your extra time yada yada, and you're way ahead to just buy the stuff.
If the person they are sueing has access and may have used the PC for copyright infringement should the PC not be investigated?
You're not making sense here. First off, you have to mean if the person they're suing has access and may have used his PC for copyright infringement, should his PC not be investigated? That's the first correction. They've already checked the PC in the house itself, and come up dry. It does not contain the hard drive with any of the infringing files or programs on it.
Secondly, they're not suing the son. So he is not the person they're suing, and they should have no right to anything on his PC just because he's a son who lives 4 miles away and, like any good son should, visits his mother.
Thirdly, if you have your own computer at home, it doesn't make much sense that you'd pack up your computer, drive miles to your Mother's house, and commit copyright infringement there, before packing up your computer once more and driving back home again to use your computer for everything else you normally use it for. Even if you have a notebook computer, do you drive somewhere else to do all your filesharing? That's too much of a reach for even this judge to accept, hence they're not allowed to just look at a non-party's computer hard drive because of a casual relationship between a mother and her son. There is no evidence that the son's computer has ever been in his Mother's house.
It would be like the RIAA saying that, we tracked filesharing to the IP address of your best friend who lives a few miles from you. But because we couldn't find the evidence on his computer, and we know you're friends who often got together at his house, and because you have a computer too, we want to give your computer a digital anal examination as well, hoping we'll find something to incriminate you with. And it's not even like said best friend told the RIAA to get his own butt out of the sling that, "Hey, my best friend always came over with his computer and we downloaded music on it." He would have told them nothing of the sort.
This has been a bad week for the RIAA, with more going against them than ever before. If you'll allow me a moment...
Yeah!!!
Now back to our normal post. The RIAA is like a bacteria that has multiplied to infect many hosts. However, like a simple bacteria that replicates perfect copies of itself, the RIAA lawsuits are all exact clones. What this means is that, if you can kill one of them, you can kill all of them. Reading the postings just this week on Ray's blog will tell you that the many enemies (a.k.a. innocent defendants who are fighting back) of the RIAA are coordinating and refining their tactics in search of the magic bullet that will kill this plague once and for all. And from the looks of things, they're getting mighty close.
I'm glad to see that MRPG designers are bowing to the obvious and recognizing what people do most in their games. I think my character in this game will be called King Midas.
Now what would really be trick would be to allow gold pharmed here to be moved at some exchange rate into other games, removing the need to be doing it there.
I've ordered the free Vista upgrade for the systems I bought in January, but have no intent of installing them any time soon.
Truth is, with product activation required, MS could give you a truthful figure of just how many Vista systems have been activated. But, Nooo, that would be lower number and they wouldn't be able to try and convince the weak-minded that Vista is taking over the world and you need to jump onto the bandwagon now, or be left behind forever. What a load of absolute crap.
One thing about this is at least it can be tested for, and right here on Earth. But even if it's observed, that doesn't automatically prove his theory true. It would only add evidence to it.
Why should a London-based company be able to issue DMCA takedowns, yet not be liable when they abuse the law?'
You just answered your own question. Someone got them to issue an invalid takedown notice because they can't get in trouble for doing so like any USA company that wasn't Oregon PBS could.
Instead of giving content away for free, why not make it easier to link to content? Provide a way for YouTube to link to Cuban's site instead of hosting the video itself, in a manner that benefits both. This could help YouTube not only avoid copyright problems, but cut their server storage and bandwidth load in the process. YouTube could show Cuban's page inside a YouTube frame giving exposure to both sites. It would also drive business to Cuban's site that he obviously wasn't getting directly.
Of course this makes too much sense. Everyone wants their own little fiefdom that nobody else has any part of. But share and play nice, and just maybe everyone would be much better off.
Time to outlaw the sale of large hard drives, I guess.
I would expect instead for the RIAA to push for a huge "blank media" tax, as have their similar organizations in other countries. After all, if they can tax every blank CD (see Canada) regardless of what you put on it, hard drives are next. And while they've been turned back in this quest, especially in regard to MP3 players, they never stop trying.
To be told to Put-Up, or Shut-Up and Pay-Up, should have been said long ago. The idea that a well-funded adversary can bankrupt their opponent for daring to oppose them while the case never even makes it to trial is the worst part of the American system of justice.
And while the defendants are at it, how long until someone calls the RIAA on their illegal joinder of John Doe defendants in the beginnings of these suits. Two years ago a judge told the RIAA to stop that, they they can't simply join unrelated defendants to save on their litigation costs, and the RIAA has blithely ignored that ruling and continued on their merry ways.
And did anyone see The Bay City Rollers (60's/70's band) lawsuit against Sony for not paying royalties today? Sony's excuse: We lost your contract and didn't know how much to pay you, so we've given you nothing! Puts to lie the claim that filesharers are ripping off the artists. The record companies appear to be doing that just fine on their own.
Stupid ideas usually result in absurd circumstances. Suppose I research something, write my paper, and feel really good about my work. So good that I also immediately submit my creative genius opus to Wikipedia before even showing it to my teacher. I'll betcha that Turnitin uses Wikepedia as one of its online sources for checking, so odds are good it bounces my paper back as lifted it's entirety from Wikipedia and I fail the course. What is my recourse here?
Just suppose I write an original term paper, all my own work, and I intend to sell it to other students who don't want to do that work themselves. Turnitin has no rights to my paper beyond validating that it doesn't match any other one in their database. Furthermore I've legally copyrighted my work, and they've taken it without compensation to me, and destroyed its future value in the process. I think the students definitely have a case.
Let's test this. Someone submit the lyrics to the top 10 pop songs currently on the chart. Make it a research project into current trends in music. Wanna bet that Turnitin now owns those lyrics to do with as they please? I don't think so.
As long as CPU's continue to get faster and cheaper, and caches larger, this is hardly a gloom & doom end of the world. Most systems don't tax their CPU's most of the time anyway, and for the next 3 years at least CPU's will continue to get faster and cheaper.
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The glasses will let the wearer instantly change the color of their lenses to virtually any hue by tuning a tiny electronic knob in the frame.
I don't want to have to turn a tiny electronic knob. I don't even know what makes some knobs electronic, rather than the old kind of knob. What I want are sunglasses smart enough to turn their own knobs and automatically adjust the the ambient light conditions properly. Now those would be smart!
The nice thing about Windows XP MCE was the price. With a dual processor CPU you'll never want to use XP Home. (Well, you'd never want to use XP Home anyway, but that's a different story.) If you want all of XP Pro with the exception of Active Directory and the ability to join a domain (you can always VPN into the domain anyway), then MCE saves you a few bucks in the process.
allow users to download data eight times faster than current technology. IBM cited the rising demand for digital media such as movies as the driving force behind the new technology.
I don't see how this is going to make my cable connection run any faster, which is the only part of downloading movies faster that would have any effect on me.
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Tell me again how great Canada is? I tend to forget when I read of moves like this. I don't recall USA broadcasters stopping the streaming of Canadian television shows down to their southern neighbor.
Don't forget Direct TV in this hall of shame. Boilerplate settlement agreements against anyone they could discover who'd bought a SmartCard Writer, despite that fact that SmartCards are used in many places. Guilty till proven innocent, and IIRC the settlement was around $9,000. They weren't stopped, and certainly the RIAA took a page from that playbook.
Then back at you. Your Mother is left to explain, under oath, why she had the expense of a router for a home with only one computer system. And the ISP might be able to testify to multi-gigabytes of traffic on this "unlimited" DSL line monthly. Dear Auld Mum must be sending awful long e-mails to account for that.
Add up the bill for the Mac, router, extra hard drive space/blank DVD's, your extra time yada yada, and you're way ahead to just buy the stuff.
I believe it started out as Wally's project, who passed it off "as a favor" to Asok.
You're not making sense here. First off, you have to mean if the person they're suing has access and may have used his PC for copyright infringement, should his PC not be investigated? That's the first correction. They've already checked the PC in the house itself, and come up dry. It does not contain the hard drive with any of the infringing files or programs on it.
Secondly, they're not suing the son. So he is not the person they're suing, and they should have no right to anything on his PC just because he's a son who lives 4 miles away and, like any good son should, visits his mother.
Thirdly, if you have your own computer at home, it doesn't make much sense that you'd pack up your computer, drive miles to your Mother's house, and commit copyright infringement there, before packing up your computer once more and driving back home again to use your computer for everything else you normally use it for. Even if you have a notebook computer, do you drive somewhere else to do all your filesharing? That's too much of a reach for even this judge to accept, hence they're not allowed to just look at a non-party's computer hard drive because of a casual relationship between a mother and her son. There is no evidence that the son's computer has ever been in his Mother's house.
It would be like the RIAA saying that, we tracked filesharing to the IP address of your best friend who lives a few miles from you. But because we couldn't find the evidence on his computer, and we know you're friends who often got together at his house, and because you have a computer too, we want to give your computer a digital anal examination as well, hoping we'll find something to incriminate you with. And it's not even like said best friend told the RIAA to get his own butt out of the sling that, "Hey, my best friend always came over with his computer and we downloaded music on it." He would have told them nothing of the sort.
Now do you get it?
Yeah!!!
Now back to our normal post. The RIAA is like a bacteria that has multiplied to infect many hosts. However, like a simple bacteria that replicates perfect copies of itself, the RIAA lawsuits are all exact clones. What this means is that, if you can kill one of them, you can kill all of them. Reading the postings just this week on Ray's blog will tell you that the many enemies (a.k.a. innocent defendants who are fighting back) of the RIAA are coordinating and refining their tactics in search of the magic bullet that will kill this plague once and for all. And from the looks of things, they're getting mighty close.
Now what would really be trick would be to allow gold pharmed here to be moved at some exchange rate into other games, removing the need to be doing it there.
Truth is, with product activation required, MS could give you a truthful figure of just how many Vista systems have been activated. But, Nooo, that would be lower number and they wouldn't be able to try and convince the weak-minded that Vista is taking over the world and you need to jump onto the bandwagon now, or be left behind forever. What a load of absolute crap.
And just what is "low" for a U2?
One thing about this is at least it can be tested for, and right here on Earth. But even if it's observed, that doesn't automatically prove his theory true. It would only add evidence to it.
You just answered your own question. Someone got them to issue an invalid takedown notice because they can't get in trouble for doing so like any USA company that wasn't Oregon PBS could.
You've just learned the lesson that Backwards Compatibility in bugs is as important as Backwards Compatibility in functionality.
Of course this makes too much sense. Everyone wants their own little fiefdom that nobody else has any part of. But share and play nice, and just maybe everyone would be much better off.
I would expect instead for the RIAA to push for a huge "blank media" tax, as have their similar organizations in other countries. After all, if they can tax every blank CD (see Canada) regardless of what you put on it, hard drives are next. And while they've been turned back in this quest, especially in regard to MP3 players, they never stop trying.
And while the defendants are at it, how long until someone calls the RIAA on their illegal joinder of John Doe defendants in the beginnings of these suits. Two years ago a judge told the RIAA to stop that, they they can't simply join unrelated defendants to save on their litigation costs, and the RIAA has blithely ignored that ruling and continued on their merry ways.
And did anyone see The Bay City Rollers (60's/70's band) lawsuit against Sony for not paying royalties today? Sony's excuse: We lost your contract and didn't know how much to pay you, so we've given you nothing! Puts to lie the claim that filesharers are ripping off the artists. The record companies appear to be doing that just fine on their own.
Stupid ideas usually result in absurd circumstances. Suppose I research something, write my paper, and feel really good about my work. So good that I also immediately submit my creative genius opus to Wikipedia before even showing it to my teacher. I'll betcha that Turnitin uses Wikepedia as one of its online sources for checking, so odds are good it bounces my paper back as lifted it's entirety from Wikipedia and I fail the course. What is my recourse here?
Just suppose I write an original term paper, all my own work, and I intend to sell it to other students who don't want to do that work themselves. Turnitin has no rights to my paper beyond validating that it doesn't match any other one in their database. Furthermore I've legally copyrighted my work, and they've taken it without compensation to me, and destroyed its future value in the process. I think the students definitely have a case.
Let's test this. Someone submit the lyrics to the top 10 pop songs currently on the chart. Make it a research project into current trends in music. Wanna bet that Turnitin now owns those lyrics to do with as they please? I don't think so.
As long as CPU's continue to get faster and cheaper, and caches larger, this is hardly a gloom & doom end of the world. Most systems don't tax their CPU's most of the time anyway, and for the next 3 years at least CPU's will continue to get faster and cheaper.
I don't want to have to turn a tiny electronic knob. I don't even know what makes some knobs electronic, rather than the old kind of knob. What I want are sunglasses smart enough to turn their own knobs and automatically adjust the the ambient light conditions properly. Now those would be smart!
And if a Vorlon comes along, just turn black.
I already block them in my hosts file. This changes nothing.
Everything seen is that XP Home will not support multiple processors, or HT. You need Pro, or now MCE, for that.
I just what to know how he saw it out of the back of the plane. It's not like they've got rearview mirrors on their Boeings.
The nice thing about Windows XP MCE was the price. With a dual processor CPU you'll never want to use XP Home. (Well, you'd never want to use XP Home anyway, but that's a different story.) If you want all of XP Pro with the exception of Active Directory and the ability to join a domain (you can always VPN into the domain anyway), then MCE saves you a few bucks in the process.
I don't see how this is going to make my cable connection run any faster, which is the only part of downloading movies faster that would have any effect on me.